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Ellen Pao. She fired Victory who was very popular for running AMAs (Ask me anythings) with a lot of high powered people. The popularity of those dropped a bit after that and they were never the same.

Edit: Someone clarified below that Knothing took responsibility for firing Victory but Pao definitely took the heat for firing victory on top of nuking several popular (edgy and outright bad) subs

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Pao did not fire Victoria, Ohanian did, as he later admitted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/comme...

That's kind of the point of my post. She was the initial fallguy for firing victory. Knothing may have clarified it was at his insistence but I can tell you that most people didn't read his silly little apology post.

I thought I had a vague sense of why they stopped doing AMAs, but for the life of me I can't remember why now. Those were great.

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